What is best tactic to brighten a portrait

AngTC88

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Aug 25, 2021 01:31

I am taking a person portrait on the beach , the photo end up bright background and the person is dark.
What is the best tactic to brighten the person that I am focusing not affecting much on the background in the PhotoDirector

optodata

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Aug 25, 2021 17:20

Thre are several ways to do that. The quickest way is to click on the "magic wand" icon in the Tone section on the Adjustment | Manual tab:

That may or may not give you the results you want, so you can also/instead adjust the Exposure, Contrast, Dark, Darkest and Dehaze controls to bring out the best detail. You may also want to try the HDR Effect (located further down) to bring out darker detail while keeping the brightest areas.

See the PhD online Help site for more details on using each of these controls.

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Aug 25, 2021 19:29

Hello

To make adjustments to only part of the photo, you need to apply an Adjustment Mask

There are quite a few tutorials available on this topic, including those at the CL Learning Centre optodata linked.This tutorial deals with the same thing

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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Aug 25, 2021 21:13

Ah, that's a key part I missed in my response. Glad you clarified things!

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Aug 26, 2021 15:30

We'll just call it a combined effort, optodata.

AngTC88 - Here are the basic steps of adjusting a section of the photo using Adjustment Selection:

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